In five pages this paper examines management functions including controlling, leading, organizing, and planning in a consideration of future trends in these areas. Two sources are cited in the bibliography.
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business has changed dramatically in only the past generation, and the past decade has seen heightened competition to levels that previously were not thought to be possible. Possible or
not, it exists and now is expected only to continue. It was nearly a generation ago that Peter Drucker first began spreading the
gospel according to innovation, defining what it is and why it would be important to the businesses of the future. Drucker explained that innovation was open to "old" products
as well as new, using McDonalds as his example of true innovation despite the old product on which it was based. Managements daily task is to lead business efforts.
Its larger responsibility is to follow business, changing its approach to best match the changing needs of business, consumers and employees.
Future Tracks Bill Gates first published The Road Ahead in the mid-1990s, and it is gratifying now to read the book and realize
how many of his predictions for the future truly occurred during the latter years of the 1990s. That Gates could see five or six years into the future can
be impressive, but the fact that he looks beyond that point also affects the reader in other ways. If Gates has been able to foretell what was future at
the time of writing but is only a matter of history now, then we can be more certainly assured that at least some of his other predictions will be on
track as well. Gates topic is the Internet, and all of his discussion in the book relates to information and its use, dissemination,